Authors:
Molly Steenson
At the World Economic Forum in Davos this year, Google CEO Eric Schmidt offered up his vision for the disappearing Internet: "Imagine you walk into a room, and the room is dynamic. And with your permission and all of that, you are interacting with the things going on in the room. A highly personalized, highly interactive and very, very interesting world emerges" [1]. This vision of the Internet of Things isn't new. It's 40, if not 50 years old. It relies on outmoded models of artificial intelligence. And it is terrifically naive. Schmidt's abstraction and oversimplification of the Internet…
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